The Best of 2009
February 3, 2010 by Keith
Filed under Featured, The Underground
This post might be coming in a little late in the month, but with all the great shows that we’ve been able to cover this year we decided we wanted to give our readers a recap of out favorites for different reasons…below you’ll find the categories we decided to use:
Best Overall Performance
Best Hard Rock Performance
Best Rap / Hip Hop Performance
Best Middle of the Week Show
Best New Cleveland Artist
Best of Warped Tour
Alright…let’s get right to it.
Best Overall Performance
Photos by Keith Mokris / keithmokris.com
Playing at the Tower City Amphitheatre, The Fray not only wowed a huge crowd, but packed in enough lights to signal outer space. The atmosphere at the show was so exciting, we’ve never seen anything like it.
Best Hard Rock Performance
The Devil Wears Prada are definitely known for their intensity and ferocious stage-presence. They stormed the stage during their set at the House of Blues and I think my eardrums are still ringing from the mayhem. Props to TDWP!
Best Rap / Hip Hop Performance
Alright…this one is just gonna have to be a tie between The Cool Kids and Kid Cudi. TCK and Kid Cudi were absolutely awesome both in Columbus and Cleveland. We got to cover both twice and I just can’t pick a winner. TIE!
Best Middle of the Week Show
The Aibourne Toxic Event are a great band that we can keep expecting good thing outs of. Their show on a Tuesday was just plain excellent. Their set list was jam-packed and performed flawlessly!
Best New Cleveland Artist
This is a Shakedown released their album Love Kills this year and haven’t looked back. Mixing strong rock with pumping electronic sounds, this group always leaves you wanting more. It was be exciting to see where this Cleveland-based group ends up.
Best of Warped Tour
Covering so many acts at Warped Tour, I think this award gets spread out between Paramore, P.O.S., and Madina Lake. Warped Tour presented so many acts in such a short amount of time, we’ll always be leaving something out here…but in the end, these artists cranked it up louder than anyone!
As you can see in a few photos, we got to cover a lot of great bands this year and we’re looking forward to doing it all over again! Stay tuned and rock on into 2010!
